Origami: How to fold a Heart Box

Would you like to make a heart box with origami paper?♥

It’s useful to use when you give somebody a gift

or even just to keep something in.

I recommend especially using it as a gift box

when you give Valentine‘s chocolate.

If the box is your original with your warm heart,

the person who gets it will feel more special about you.★

How to fold a heart box 1 A heart gift box

※Get two sheets of origami paper ready, since we will make both a lid and a box.

 1. If your origami’s size is 15cm each,

get a piece of origami paper with 3cm*9cm and put it to the right top,

like the picture below.

Put a mark in the middle (+) and fold all corners to the mark,

along the dotted lines.

2. Turn it over.

3. Fold both sides to the middle.

4. Open them up.

5. Fold both sides to the middle, lengthways.

Change the direction to width ways.

6. Take the top part from the back to the front and put it on the top,

as picture No.7 shows.

7. Fold both corners up, along the dotted lines.

8. Fold it down in half.

9. Fold it the same way for the top part too.

10. Open from the middle and make it like a box.

Turn it over.

11. Fold the small origami paper along the dotted line.

12. Open it from the edge.

13. Fold it like a staircase and bring it to the middle of the heart.

14. Fold four corners to the back.

15. And the lid is done!

16.Gt the origami paper which is 1cm smaller than the one for the lid ready.

Put the mark in the middle and fold all corners to the mark.

17. Fold all sides to the middle to make four creases,

along the dotted lines.

18. Open both the top and the bottom part.

19. Using creases make it shaped like a box.

20. This is how only the half side is folded.

21. Fold the other half too and the box part is done!

22. Here’s a gift box!

How to fold a heart box 2 A heart box for small articles

※Get two sheets of origami paper ready, since we make both a lid and a box.

1. Fold it in half twice and make two creases.

2. Fold both sides to the middle and make creases.

3. Fold the top part to the crease that you made in No.2.

4. Turn it over.

5. Fold the bottom part up to the crease that you made in No.2.

6. Fold both corners to the middle.

7. Turn it over.

8. Fold the top corner down along the dotted line.

9. Turn it over.

10. Fold both corners up, as picture No.11 shows.

11. Fold both corners to the middle.

12. Put tape on them.

13. Fold it along the dotted line.

14. Fold the right side to the left, along the dotted line.

15. Fold the bottom corner along the dotted line and make a crease.

16. Open it up.

17. Fold it the same way for the other side too.

18. Open the part that you put with tape toward the top

and make a box along the dotted lines.

19. Turn it over.

20. The lid part is done!

21.Get the origami paper which is 1cm smaller than the one for the lid ready.

Fold it in half twice and make two creases, along the dotted lines.

22. Fold both sides to the middle, along the dotted lines.

23. Fold both sides to the creases that you made in No.22.

24. Fold both sides to the middle.

25. Open them up.

26. Change the direction.

27. Fold the same way as you did in No.22 ~ No.24.

28. Fold both corners and make creases.

29. Open them up

and fold them the same way for the other side too.

30. Open them up.

31. Open it from the middle and make a box,

using the creases that you made.

32. And the box part is done!

33. Here are the lid and the box for small articles!

Now you have such cute boxes!

If you use the 15cm’s origami paper,

it will be the perfect size for small articles, such as clips.♪

If you put glue on each edge, the box will be strong and easy to use!

You can put a different lid and a box together so that

it will get a different expression.  Give it a try too!★

【Translated by　 Kana Toda PIERCE】